Sapatnekar S. Timing

Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004. — 307 p. — ISBN: 1-4020-8022-0.This book attempts to provide an overview of methods that are used for the analysis and optimization of timing in digital integrated circuits in con-temporary technologies. It is rather well known that this topic is important to circuit designers and CA D engineers. The problem of timing analysis and optimization has come a long way over the years‚ and has become increasingly complicated with the passage of time due to two classes of effects that arise due to shrinking device geometries:
“Micro” effects correspond to new physical effects at the device or interconnect level caused by reductions in device dimensions.
“Macro” effects are related to problems of scale‚ as circuit sizes increase with the ability to pack larger circuits on a die.